fmwongmd A good storyline showcasing racism and humanity. Good acting, well directed.

tkarlmann I'm not going into a sophisticated review of this film, there are plenty of those already here. I'd rather just talk about what I felt. This film moved me. I have seen this movie before, and I think it is a movie where you don't really 'get it' the first time you see it. Sure, I wanted another installment of Harry Callahan, just as we all did. This film is different. I think that many of Eastwood's films are too sophisticated for the reviewers. There, I said it. I've seen this in Pale Rider, and many of his films. I think we all need to grow up a little when seeing an Eastwood film. In so doing, I think we wake up a little bit, and learn something from them. I'm going to re-watch some of his other films now; enough of me blabbing here.

Dave Stangeman In summary, the film is about a racist war veteran (Walt) who is somehow also the moral compass of the film, despite being a racist. We are ostensibly to accept that this is okay and that he's great because he is old, a war vet, and played by Clint Eastwood. Okay. The film also attempts (clumsily) to make Eastwood's horrible character more sympathetic by making the primary Vietnamese character a thief. I don't find any of this to be particularly great--or realistic--storytelling as others have said. I will say that I like the destination/message of the film--which I do think was well-intentioned--but I hated the path it took to get there. A more realistic story about these themes would have been, "the world becomes a better place because racist Walt died in Korea."

user-50392-89470 This is beyond doubt one of his greatest works. The ending always gets me. Where he sacrifices his life to prove a point and to leave the people he loved in a better place. We all get to that point where we hope we can leave the world and the people around us better off. I really feel for Daisy because all of sudden she has to idea what happened to Walt, but she was left with good people. I wish he had left the car for me, but I didn't need it so it went to a (now) better person. Yes once again the movie left me with a tear in the eyes as it always does. The reason why the title, I first heard him sing in "Paint Your Wagon" ,decades ago, and he didn't really have the voice for it, but hell it didn't stop his success in film making. It is a great movie for the times even tho it's ten years old now.